Two thoughtful articles:
From a former dean of Yale law:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/06/kavanaugh-confirmation-temperament-yale-dean-221086
And from Matt Yglesias...
https://www.vox.com/2018/10/5/17941312/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-legitimacy
Russia having moved from a state owned system to a right wing facist approach creates more common ground between the Russian oligarchy and American authoritarians. Can Trump pull the mainstream GOP into the Russian fold?
https://crooked.com/article/trump-gop-russia/
Basically,
1. Trump is harming US power
2. Through his obsessive domination of media with often nonsensical things, he distracts from the real issues
3. Nuclear war and global warming
4. The current Republican leadership, from among the most supported and educated people in history, are...
Is this our future?
Worth a read.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/in-poland-a-window-on-what-happens-when-populists-come-to-power/2016/12/18/083577e8-c203-11e6-92e8-c07f4f671da4_story.html?utm_term=.55acaeb52a7d
I went with my morning person wife to vote at the local HS here in the Bronx at 6am. Business was brisk in a convivial atmosphere. People were expressing relief. No Trump poll-watchers(no surprise there).
My MIL did the food shopping Saturday, and said the store was crazy because people were...
Ben Carson admits fabricating West Point scholarship
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/ben-carson-west-point-215598
and...
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/396193/ben-carsons-troubling-connection-jim-geraghty
Passing on a bleg from Naked Capitalism:
Contact info at the link
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/07/calling-all-swedish-and-sweden-connected-readers.html
Too poor? Traditionally inwardly focused, not militaristic? So we're safe? Nope, they're taking another approach.
Interesting read, at any rate...
The Geopolitics of American Global Decline: Washington Versus China in the Twenty-First Century
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